Letter: We're losing our country to tyrannical power

Sadly, I believe we have lost the country in a bloodless coup d'etat executed by an agenda-driven wannabe dictator who in 4 ½ years has ignored the will of the people, ignored the will of Congress, defied the courts, overridden the Constitution and abandoned the intent of the Declaration of Independence. He is close to fulfilling Karl Marx's goals: to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

How has he done this? By establishing a regime of unelected regulators and federal departments who accomplish his will without needing his bidding - they are all on the same team. They all have the same objective - absolute tyrannical power.

His regime caps a process that has been going on for decades and we, like the useful idiots described by Vladimir Lenin, have passively allowed the slow drip, drip, drip of liberalism, progressivism and socialism to lead this nation to the edge of communism.

The latest flexing of executive muscle occurred as a result of the "government shutdown." In a fit of pettiness, he selectively chose to punish those who didn't slavishly agree with his every misguided policy. As a Vietnam veteran, I was especially irked at the arrogance of blocking off the open-air memorial - paid for with private funds - to WWII Honor Flight veterans, men and women who bravely sacrificed to preserve this last bastion of liberty, the mantle of which has allowed him and his family to prosper.

And please don't respond with any blarney about me being racist. I couldn't care less what color the president is. As Martin Luther King said, the issue is content of character, not color of skin. I'd applaud a president who is purple with green stripes if he demonstrated the values and characteristics of a loyal traditional non-nanny state American.

Karl Day

Greer

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Letter: We're losing our country to tyrannical power

Sadly, I believe we have lost the country in a bloodless coup d'etat executed by an agenda-driven wannabe dictator who in 4 1/2 years has ignored the will of the people, ignored the will of Congress,